![]() ![]() At that open mic in Des Moines, when he was first starting out. At the Laugh Shack in Portland, Maine, in front of that bachelorette party. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Ī bleep, a boop, a shudder, a swoosh, and there it was, on each of their phones: It’s also an ingeniously plotted puzzler with a twist you’ll never see coming! ![]() But who is doing the killing, and why?Ī darkly clever take on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and other classics of the genre, Ten Dead Comedians is a marvel of literary ventriloquism, with hilarious comic monologues in the voice of every suspect. Marooned without cell phone service or wifi signals, they soon find themselves being murdered one by one. All nine arrive via boat to find that every building on the island is completely deserted. ![]() ![]() The group includes a former late-night TV host, a washed-up improv instructor, a ridiculously wealthy “blue collar” comic, and a past-her-prime Vegas icon. Fred Van Lente’s brilliant debut is both a savagely funny homage to the Golden Age of Mystery and a thoroughly contemporary show-business satire.Īs the story opens, nine comedians of various acclaim are summoned to the island retreat of legendary Hollywood funnyman Dustin Walker. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Until now.įor years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors.Īfter more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. 2021 Audie Award Nominee for Best Nonfiction AudiobookĪ #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller. ![]() ![]() ![]() In an introduction that explores monsters both fictional and real, Partridge recalls what it was like to live in a community menaced by a serial killer and examines how the Zodiac's reign of terror shaped him as a writer. "The Man Who Killed Halloween" is an extensive essay about growing up during the late sixties in the town where the Zodiac Killer began his murderous spree. ![]() In "Three Doors," a scarred war hero hunts his past with the help of a magic prosthetic hand, while "Satan's Army" is a real Partridge rarity previously available only in a long sold-out lettered edition from another press.īut there's more to this holiday celebration besides fiction. "Johnny Halloween" features a sheriff battling both a walking ghost and his own haunted conscience. In "The Jack o' Lantern," a brand new Dark Harvest novelette, the October Boy races against a remorseless döppelganger bent on carving a deadly path through the town's annual ritual of death and rebirth. ![]() Now Partridge revisits Halloween with a collection featuring a half-dozen stories celebrating frights both past and present. ![]() A Bram Stoker Award winner and World Fantasy nominee, Partridge's rapid-fire tale of a small town trapped by its own shadows welcomed a wholly original creation, the October Boy, earning the author comparisons to Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson. Norman Partridge's Halloween novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of 2006. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I think that was my whole goal: I didn’t want to create anything that was super wrong or right. You want readers to be able to think for themselves. entering the scene? What does it mean for you to be a player in that space?ĪG: It’s a lot of responsibility-I’m grateful to have the opportunity for it. MD: What does it mean to you as a young author, coming out with your debut in this moment in which there is more politically charged Y.A. They can think about these topics for themselves. But I also did not want to pander to the audience. ![]() Handling those topics with care is so important. You can’t just leave it blank, because you’re talking to a very young audience. You do need to say something-you can’t just put on paper "oh all these characters are dying" and think that's fine. you have to be mindful that you’re presenting something to a younger audience. If this were an adult book, it might be a little more graphic, there might be more specific politics involved. When it comes to approaching those themes, it all depends on the extent of the conversation and how deeply you delve into it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though that pretty much gets him no recognition, since it’s in the middle of a disaster, it still shows that he’s brave and clever and takes care of the other people around him. In an early scene, he takes some pretty heroic action to save a classmate. I liked that while Hiccup is so out of sync with the other Vikings, he already has the makings of a leader, he just doesn’t have the confidence to back up his ability. I felt like that made his relationship with Toothless really cool and added some unexpected humor. One of the things I liked a lot is that in the book, Hiccup can speak to dragons, and he hears them talking back. ![]() In fact, I’m not sure if there’s even a line uttered by a female Viking? I’m not sure. Honestly, though, I think I liked the book better, except for the fact that there are so few female characters. I would say it definitely inspired the movie, but there’s not much overlap in the two stories besides a few of the characters and the fact that they’re Vikings figuring out an existence in a world in which dragons exist plus needing to battle an extra huge dragon. The first thing I’ll say about the book is that it is SO different than the movie. I’ve seen the movie How to Train Your Dragon lots of times with my daughter, so I’m pretty familiar with it. It’s always risky reading a book after seeing the movie first. ![]() |